Peter Zaitsev reported recently that new versions of MySQL Community edition are no longer available for download from the MySQL Download Area. This provoked a storm of speculation that MySQL was ...

This quick tutorial on how to install the MySQL database explains how to download and configure the MySQL Community Edition on Windows.

Oracle will not release any new, enhanced version of MySQL Enterprise Edition without contemporaneously releasing a new, also enhanced version of MySQL Community Edition licensed under the GPL.

While MySQL-JavaScript is available in the MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Heatwave cloud service on OCI, AWS, and Azure, there is no support in the MySQL Community Edition.

Sun's MySQL database unit has reversed on plans to release important backup features under a proprietary licence, following criticism from the open-source community ...

Sun officials confirmed that new online backup features will be offered to paying MySQL Enterprise users only — a plan that sparked criticism from open-source advocates.

Percona, for example, offers another alternative to Oracle’s MySQL Community Edition. Percona tends to take a more conservative approach to rolling in new features.

Oracle has announced that an update to MySQL 5.5 Enterprise Edition is now available. New in this release is the addition of MySQL Enterprise Backup and MySQL Workbench along with enhancements in ...

Percona will launch its new Percona Server 5.6 at 8AM tomorrow morning which will feature many of the features of MySQL enterprise edition for free.

Community driven features: MySQL Workbench 6.0 addresses well over 200 inputs and requests from the community. MySQL Workbench 6.0 Enterprise Edition provides customers with additional enterprise ...